Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

People News: @CliffordLaw founder and senior partner Robert A. Clifford and partners Kevin P. Durkin and John V. Kalantzis are scheduled to speak at the @ChicagoBarAssoc's CLE trip, which will take place from April 27 to May 3 in Greece. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

People News: @lplegal added four litigation attorneys. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

A man who alleges the city of Chicago fired him for accusing a co-worker of domestic violence cannot pursue allegations that his constitutional right to free speech was violated, a federal judge held. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

The city of Chicago will pay $27 million to the family of a woman who was killed in an unauthorized police chase. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

People News: @JacksonLewisPC hired Kenneth K. Suh as a principal. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

People News: @rshc_llp added former federal prosecutor Jason A. Julien as a partner to its commercial disputes and litigation and white collar investigations and compliance practices. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

People News: @GT_Law added Jonathan Temps as a shareholder to its private funds group. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

A lawyer who participated in a scheme to defraud a bank should be suspended for five months, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission hearing board. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

A federal judge cleared the way for disgruntled investors to jointly pursue accusations that The Boeing Company artificially inflated its stock price by lying about the safety of its 737 Max airliners following two crashes that killed 346 people. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

“In response to the vulgarity in the dissent, dozens of members of the 9th Circuit, a court made up of 51 judges, issued a rebuke for his language,” writes @DonaldEckler in today’s column about a judge’s use of foul language. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

People News: @GT_Law promoted Alex Dobkin, Aaron S. Klein and Eric W. Larson to shareholder. It also promoted Mark W. Hockley to of counsel. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

Three Cook County Circuit Court judges are at risk of losing their positions as unofficial election results for the primaries are rolling in for the dozens of Cook County judicial races throughout Chicago and the county. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

Judges Jason A. Helland and Margaret O’Connell are the projected winners in the contested race for the 3rd District Appellate Court, according to unofficial election results. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

A truck driver and his employer lost a bid for a new trial in a car crash negligence case after a state appellate panel was not convinced they were denied a fair trial nor that the damages were excessive. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

A federal judge declined to dismiss a woman’s claim brought under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, alleging that an optometry network disclosed her personal health information to Google without her permission. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

People News: @CliffordLaw partner Kevin P. Durkin is slated to speak March 31 at the 60th Annual Southern Methodist University Air Law Symposium at the Omni Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

People News: @gouldratner named Chicago attorneys Jessica G. Lingertat and David N. Michael to serve four-year terms as managing partners. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

People News: @SaulEwing hired Fielden Fleming as a counsel in its corporate practice. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

A Cook County jury found a vascular surgeon who performed an arterial intervention procedure on a man’s left leg is not liable for the subsequent amputation of the patient’s left forefoot. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…

The presence of conflicting evidence about why The Hertz Corporation fired an employee after he reported co-workers for forging customer documents entitles him to pursue his retaliatory discharge lawsuit, a federal appeals court ruled. lawyerport.com/chicagolawbull…